I thought I might take a look at the use of color in this novel. After all, the story has a lot of powerful imagery, and it was originally meant to be a “computer-generated graphic novel”, so the design of the imagery must have demanded a lot of attention. Even the title of the book, “Snow Crash,” is a term with some intrinsic color qualities. A snow crash displays “white noise”, “a pattern of black-and-white pixels” (73-74). The black-and-white of the snow crash is a very bad thing: it's associated with nonsense, an extremely primitive fault with a machine.